Drawing of Caelle's phone. There's a text conversation with Vae on the screen. Caelle asks 'what do you wanna do for dinner?' then sends an image of a frog wearing big sneakers. Vae replies 'What does that mean.' Caelle sends the frog image again. A set of notes next to the drawing further describes Caelle's phone habits: 'Goes out of her way to type all lowercase even though her phone auto-capitalizes. Always sending random links and images. Often leaves out periods for effect. What effect, you ask? No one knows.'

Drawing of Isaac's phone. There's a text conversation with Vae on the screen. Isaac has sent an extremely anxious message that is so long, it doesn't fit on the screen. The part that we can see says '...anything so I just sort of shut up for the rest of the day and the whole time I felt like I should apologize but at the same time I couldn't shake the feeling that I was the only one who was even thinking about it and apologizing for something that nobody else even thought twice about would be so weird, right? So now I feel like an idiot even though everything's probably fine and I just want the day to be over already.' Vae replies: 'Is this urgent? Work is really busy today.' A set of notes next to the drawing further describes Isaac's phone habits: 'Walls of text. Overly-proper grammar and punctuation, but tends to write run-on sentences when distressed. Takes an hour to reply because he's deleting and re-writing his message 20 times.'

Drawing of Shen's phone. There's a text conversation with Caelle on the screen. It's not clear what they're talking about. Caelle says 'it came out so cute!' Shen replies 'AAAAAAA THANK YOU aslkhdaslkdasdj! I'm really happy with how it turned out :-)' Caelle asks 'can you 3D print me one of these?' Shen replies 'Sure!!!' A set of notes next to the ddrawing further describes Shen's phone habits: 'Keysmashes and yelling (usually very quiet in person). Uses emoticons instead of emoji most of the time. Jailbroke her phone so she could install weird shit on it.

Drawing of Vae's phone. Her phone case is falling apart and her screen is cracked. There's a text conversation with Caelle on the screen. Caelle sends a selfie, and asks 'so, what do you think of the new outfit?' followed by several 'eyes' emojis. Vae sends a thumbs-up emoji in response. Caelle replies 'sweetie that was absolutely devastating'. Vae replies 'I was being sincere. Sorry.' A set of notes next to the ddrawing further describes Vae's phone habits: 'Short responses. Occasionally just one individual emoji. Tone problems. Frightening punctuation. Phone case is absolutely fucked cause she keeps picking and scratching at it.'

Communication Styles

I was imagining what their texting habits would be like if they lived in a world where phones existed.

I based Vae's extremely fucked up phone case on my own. Mine actually looks a little worse than hers at this point, but, unlike hers, my screen isn't cracked, so at least I have that going for me.